Portland, Oregon - Off-Topic

Posted by theanticitizen (186 posts) - 2 months, 29 days ago

So I replied to a couple comments on the Gone Home trailer page and had some pretty fun banter about Portland and the 90's and one user sent me a link to the Portlandia "Dream of the 90's" video and it always makes me smile because Portlandia is shockingly accurate in it's depiction of P-Town. It just made me smile a laugh a little just thinking about it. I love Portland and Oregon :D

#1 Posted by psylah (1658 posts) - 2 months, 29 days ago

Why are white people obsessed with Portland?

Online

#2 Edited by Animasta (13001 posts) - 2 months, 29 days ago

Funnily enough I am moving to portland in 3 days

@psylah: liberal 20 somethings love liberal towns. Also bike friendly, eco friendly and shit

#3 Posted by Subjugation (4414 posts) - 2 months, 29 days ago

@animasta: Also tree friendly.

Also tree friendly.

#4 Posted by Jams (2751 posts) - 2 months, 29 days ago

@subjugation said:

@animasta: Also tree friendly.

Also tree friendly.

oh. oh... ohhhh.....

#5 Posted by Barrock (3240 posts) - 2 months, 29 days ago

@psylah said:

Why are white people obsessed with Portland?

Because it's weird.

#6 Edited by casper_ (774 posts) - 2 months, 29 days ago

had a good music scene in 90s too

#7 Edited by JasonR86 (7907 posts) - 2 months, 29 days ago

I can't stand Oregon. Well, I can't stand the parts of Oregon I've been to. They remind me of the parts of Washington I try to avoid. Like the areas with the tree-hugging sum'bitches.

#8 Posted by JJWeatherman (13983 posts) - 2 months, 29 days ago

@jasonr86 said:

I can't stand Oregon. Well, I can't stand the parts of Oregon I've been to. They remind me of the parts of Washington I try to avoid. Like the areas with the tree-hugging sum'bitches.

I'm offended.

Portland's cool, yo.

#9 Edited by JasonR86 (7907 posts) - 2 months, 29 days ago

@jjweatherman said:

@jasonr86 said:

I can't stand Oregon. Well, I can't stand the parts of Oregon I've been to. They remind me of the parts of Washington I try to avoid. Like the areas with the tree-hugging sum'bitches.

I'm offended.

Portland's cool, yo.

I've grown up in Washington and have grown to hate people who represent the type of people people think of when they think of Portland. I call them tree-huggers but they could be hippies, jack-asses, pretentious, 'spunky', obnoxious, 'weird', blah blah fucking blah. They don't realize how fucking fake they look. They're buying into an image that they think is unique but it fucking isn't at all unique. Their the idiots who drive hybrids or bio-diesel cars with back-ends filled top to bottom with bumper stickers that are supposed to represent their free-spirit unaware or just deciding to ignore the fact that these stickers preaching their individuality have been mass-produced and thousands upon thousands of like-minded fucks have these stickers on their shitty cars too.

...I'm kind of irrational on this topic.

#10 Posted by Animasta (13001 posts) - 2 months, 29 days ago

@subjugation said:

@animasta: Also tree friendly.

Also tree friendly.

Portland doesn't have that many trees.

You want to see a shit load of trees you go to Eugene.

#11 Posted by JJWeatherman (13983 posts) - 2 months, 29 days ago

@jasonr86 said:

@jjweatherman said:

@jasonr86 said:

I can't stand Oregon. Well, I can't stand the parts of Oregon I've been to. They remind me of the parts of Washington I try to avoid. Like the areas with the tree-hugging sum'bitches.

I'm offended.

Portland's cool, yo.

I've grown up in Washington and have grown to hate people who represent the type of people people think of when they think of Portland. I call them tree-huggers but they could be hippies, jack-asses, pretentious, 'spunky', obnoxious, 'weird', blah blah fucking blah. They don't realize how fucking fake they look. They're buying into an image that they think is unique but it fucking isn't at all unique. Their the idiots who drive hybrids or bio-diesel cars with back-ends filled top to bottom with bumper stickers that are supposed to represent their free-spirit unaware or just deciding to ignore the fact that these stickers preaching their individuality have been mass-produced and thousands upon thousands of like-minded fucks have these stickers on their shitty cars too.

...I'm kind of irrational on this topic.

Haha. Maybe a bit irrational. I've always thought of Oregon and Washington as being pretty similar. Portland and Seattle aren't too different. We Northwestern states need to stick together!

#12 Edited by Animasta (13001 posts) - 2 months, 29 days ago

@jjweatherman: all hail cascadia!

#13 Edited by JJWeatherman (13983 posts) - 2 months, 29 days ago

@animasta said:

@jjweatherman: all hail cascadia!

I had to google that, but yes. Awesome.

#14 Posted by Subjugation (4414 posts) - 2 months, 29 days ago

@animasta said:

@subjugation said:

@animasta: Also tree friendly.

Also tree friendly.

Portland doesn't have that many trees.

You want to see a shit load of trees you go to Eugene.

Lived in the area for two years. Pot everywhere, and the occasional nude parade.

#15 Edited by Barrock (3240 posts) - 2 months, 29 days ago

@jasonr86 said:

@jjweatherman said:

@jasonr86 said:

I can't stand Oregon. Well, I can't stand the parts of Oregon I've been to. They remind me of the parts of Washington I try to avoid. Like the areas with the tree-hugging sum'bitches.

I'm offended.

Portland's cool, yo.

I've grown up in Washington and have grown to hate people who represent the type of people people think of when they think of Portland. I call them tree-huggers but they could be hippies, jack-asses, pretentious, 'spunky', obnoxious, 'weird', blah blah fucking blah. They don't realize how fucking fake they look. They're buying into an image that they think is unique but it fucking isn't at all unique. Their the idiots who drive hybrids or bio-diesel cars with back-ends filled top to bottom with bumper stickers that are supposed to represent their free-spirit unaware or just deciding to ignore the fact that these stickers preaching their individuality have been mass-produced and thousands upon thousands of like-minded fucks have these stickers on their shitty cars too.

...I'm kind of irrational on this topic.

You could live in the South... replace those people with assholes who are racist. :(

#16 Edited by Animasta (13001 posts) - 2 months, 29 days ago

@subjugation said:

@animasta said:

@subjugation said:

@animasta: Also tree friendly.

Also tree friendly.

Portland doesn't have that many trees.

You want to see a shit load of trees you go to Eugene.

Lived in the area for two years. Pot everywhere, and the occasional nude parade.

I was more referring to the actual trees.

#17 Posted by JasonR86 (7907 posts) - 2 months, 29 days ago

@barrock said:

@jasonr86 said:

@jjweatherman said:

@jasonr86 said:

I can't stand Oregon. Well, I can't stand the parts of Oregon I've been to. They remind me of the parts of Washington I try to avoid. Like the areas with the tree-hugging sum'bitches.

I'm offended.

Portland's cool, yo.

I've grown up in Washington and have grown to hate people who represent the type of people people think of when they think of Portland. I call them tree-huggers but they could be hippies, jack-asses, pretentious, 'spunky', obnoxious, 'weird', blah blah fucking blah. They don't realize how fucking fake they look. They're buying into an image that they think is unique but it fucking isn't at all unique. Their the idiots who drive hybrids or bio-diesel cars with back-ends filled top to bottom with bumper stickers that are supposed to represent their free-spirit unaware or just deciding to ignore the fact that these stickers preaching their individuality have been mass-produced and thousands upon thousands of like-minded fucks have these stickers on their shitty cars too.

...I'm kind of irrational on this topic.

You could live in the South... replace those people with assholes who are racist. :(

Yep. The issue is that I've just been around them too much for too long. Every person in every state, country, whatever probably has a subset of people who would fit the idiotic-rant-based paragraph I wrote above.

...I still hate them though.

#18 Edited by Animasta (13001 posts) - 2 months, 29 days ago

@jasonr86: awww, but I like you :(

#19 Posted by JasonR86 (7907 posts) - 2 months, 29 days ago

@animasta said:

@jasonr86: awww, but I like you :(

Awwwwww.

Well, to be fair, I don't know you to be that sort of person I'm talking about. I see you as you and not some forced, pseudo-"individual" who is dying to be recognized as a free-spirit. You're just you. And you're pretty neat. And not a phony, lame, "please everyone pay attention to me" not-unique but trying so hard to be unique fraud.